Recipe: Yummy California Rolls

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California Rolls. A California roll is a fresh take on traditional Japanese rice rolls. Filled with avocado, crab, and cucumber, it's fresh and crunchy and makes a filling meal. You can use real or imitation crab.

California Rolls are a type of maki sushi (巻き寿司 - rolled sushi) made by rolling ingredients such as crab and avocado in nori and seasoned rice.

Although rolled sushi originates in Japan, California Rolls are not from Japan.

Roll the California Roll using the bamboo mat and make sure that you tug the sushi rolls very tight.

You can cook California Rolls using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of California Rolls

1. It’s 90 ml of Uncooked white rice.

2. You need 1/4 of sheet Kombu.

3. You need 1 tbsp of Sushi vinegar.

4. You need 4 slice of Salmon (for sashimi).

5. Prepare 1/3 of Avocado.

6. It’s 1/4 of Cucumber.

7. You need 1 of sheet Nori seaweed.

8. It’s 1 of White sesame seeds (roasted sesame seeds).

Keep rolling using the bamboo mat until you have have a nice roll.

A California roll is a creative American twist on sushi.

This page will describe the California Uramaki.

Uramaki has nori or seaweed on the inside and the rice on the outside, as opposed to a regular sushi roll, which usually has the seaweed on the outside.

California Rolls instructions

1. Cook the rinsed rice with konbu. When done, add sushi vinegar and mix quickly. Let it cool down..

2. Cut the salmon into 1 cm wide strips. Peel the avocado and also slice into 1 cm wide strips. Julienne the cucumber into 1 cm strips..

3. Lay a sheet of plastic wrap on your sushi mat. Spread a thin layer of sushi rice. On the rice, place the cucumber, salmon, and avocado..

4. Place a sheet of nori on top. The key is to place the nori slightly below the top..

5. Roll the plastic wrap and sushi mat tightly..

6. Open up the plastic wrap. Sprinkle some white sesame seeds on the wrap. Roll the sushi around so that the sesame seeds stick to it. With the sealed side down, cut into 1 cm wide slices to finish..

7. For your information, the second from the right is my California rolls. I also made char siu rolls and grilled eel rolls..

Roll up rice mixture over filling, using the bamboo mat to lift and compress the mixture while rolling; remove plastic wrap as you roll.

Remove mat; roll sushi rolls in sesame seeds.

Repeat with remaining ingredients to make eight rolls.

Serve with soy sauce, wasabi and ginger slices if desired.

I'm not a brave sushi goer (no raw fish for me!), but I sure do love my California rolls.